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UNITED STATES PATENT FFIC.

JOHN R. DRAGKETT, SANFORD S. SIMMS, AND GARDNER I-IITOHOOCILOF RAMOS,LOUISIANA; SAID I-IITGHCOCK ASSIGNOR TO SAID DRAOKETT AND SIMMS.

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SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters PatentNo; 615,822, dated December13, 1898.

Application filed December 9, 1896. Serial No. 615,065. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN R. DRACKETT, SANFORD S. SIMMS, and GARDNERHITCH- COOK, of Ramos, in the parish of St. Mary and State of Louisiana,have invented a new and Improved ROpe-Grip,'of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The object of our-invention is to provide a gripping device adapted forattachment to a rope, and while in conjunction with the rope the deviceis intended to hold a parcel tightly bound together when being hoistedor when resting the said device is particularly adapted to hold a ropearound sugar-cane when, for example, the cane is hoisted from a cartinto a boat or into other receptacles, and the device is likewiseexceedingly .servioeable in keeping the cane in compact form while it isin transit from the field to the mill.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in allthe figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device attached to a rope, the ropeand the device being illustrated as binding together a sheaf or bundleof cane. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of the improved grippingdevice and that portion of the rope-which is attached to the device, andFig. 3 is a vertical section taken substantially on the line 3 3 of Fig.2.

A hook A of the usual form is employed, provided with an eye 10 at theend of its shank, into which eye an extremity of a rope 11 is looselysecured, preferably through the medium of a gromet 12, ordinarilyconstructed of metal, which gromet is held on the rope in the usualmanner.

A gripping arm 13 is pivotally secured through the medium of a pivot-pin14 to the return extremity of the eye 10 of the hook, as shown in Figs.2 and 3, the lower end of the said gripping-arm being provided with aslot 15, which receives a reduced section 16 at the upper or returnedend of the eye. The gripping-arm is of such length that it will extendupward to an engagement with the side surface of the bow-section of thehook at or near the central portion of the said bow-section. Thegripping-arm will normally engage from top to bottom with the side ofthe hook, and the outer or. free end of the grip ping-arm is bifurcatedto such an extent that a space will intervene the lower portion of thefork formed by the bifurcation in the arm and the inner concaved portionof the head of the hook, as is particularly shown in Fig. 3. Thebifurcated or forked end of the gripping-arm is beveled upon its outerface from the inner face in direction of the pivot end of the arm, (see17,) so that the inner edge of the bifurcated or forked section of thearm is renderedouite thin, and in this edge a series of teeth 18 ismade. The rope 11 is passed around the bundle and then within the hookA, the gripping-arm being then in the position shown in dotted lines inFig. 3 or at an angle to the hook. When the rope has been sufficientlytightened to hold the articles that are to be bundled, the gripping-armis carried to anengagement with the rope and the rope will be preventedfrom loosening or slipping around the bundle; but even when thegripping-arm is in engagement with the rope the rope may be furthertightened around the bundle, and the teeth of the gripping-arm willprevent it from becoming slack.

The free end of the gripping-arm, or that portion thereof in which thebifurcation is formed, extends beyond the deepest part of the opening ofthe hook A and over the metal of the hook, and said gripping-arm isprevented thereby from swinging or moving through said hook opening. Bymeans of this application of the said arm the rope is thoroughlyclamped, and the greater the tension the more firmly will said arm bedrawn toward the hook. By having the bifurcated part of the arm locatedopposite the deepest part of the opening of the hook Athe rope is heldwell up or firmly in the said deepest part of the hook-opening andprevented from riding or moving toward the hook-point.

This device is exceedingly simple. It is durable and economic, and it isadapted for use wherever a bundle or a parcel is to be bound by a cordor a rope for hoisting purposes or for purposes of transportation.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- A rope-grip consisting of two members, a hookand a gripping-arm, the hook comprising a shank, a bill formed byreeurving one end of the shank, and an eye at right angles to said billformed by bending the opposite end of the shank into a circle, theextremity of the shank after formingthe eye being extended a shortdistance along the main body of the shank, forming a heel portion, andthe gripping-arm being pivotally connected to the heel portion of theshank, the free end of said arin being forked, having the branches ofthe fork extended to bear against one side of the bill along the deepestportion thereof, and having the portion between said branches beveledand extended to a serrated or notched web, substantially as described.

JOHN R. DRAOKETT. SANFORD S. SIMMS. GARDNER HI'lOI-ICOOK.

Vitnesses:

E. M. DREIBI-IALZ, M. II. l\;[oRR1LL.

